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Or 'one of the only'. It's either 'one of' or 'the only'

Irony not your thing huh? The forum hard man cometh. All hail the tongue chewer.

25 years ago I would have agreed with you about ID cards, now it’s a non issue. We can all be tracked by mobiles, card use, electoral register etc. We have to produce ID when applying for a job, mortgage or buying anything on credit. The police can hold anybody until they’ve proved their identity. The privacy issue is over anyway so you might as well have a handy fit in the wallet ID. My Dutch gf never uses her passport when she visits, just turns up with her ID card. There is no real downside and it would things like dealing with illegal immigrants, health tourists etc much easier.

People disparage people who shop at Costco, despite shopping there themselves.

and so would we have been if we weren't an island. I'm not sure what your point is.

Is that a Stone Island jacket?

Think about staying here Whitey. Looks like an amazing place. https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/properties/hougoumont-waterloo-24855/?ZJjYEWg8T5Uilneb2kJmmY3Jr3LeeLaahPaC1QMHFpbcRx3iZQ5AeQG7hvsRJs8YCnpR6hHI3zfjNuvXj1HrB4C/qQ39zYOZzNgZeJj/LwIRMmCZDFKOrflkQrGKEdkB58bo8wascQ3MAGdt1MVGJJHI9aCltqbkNEILBtUUYyI=#Overview

Maybe we can get rid of Boris the same way.

That you need to pull your foreskin back to stop pee forking and spraying everywhere

Putin is 3’ 6” so it would have to be a head shot

Burnt down all the Federal buildings apart from the records house where land deeds were kept. The person in charge pleased with the British officer to spare it because it would hurt the people more than the government.

You've got to wonder if his speechwriters put clangers in there for a laugh and to see if he notices. He doesn't.

Very few people doubt you should reward success and incentivise innovation. The educated and clever and driven and lucky will always earn more - but that isnt the point I was making. The problem is that society has incrementally become more unequal since about 1985 and wealth is being accumulated in the hands of fewer people, primarily the top 0.1%. Do you want a society that only works for the top 0.1%? Being distracted by a debate about income tax is exactly what the self interested want. Income tax is progressive. I dont have a problem with the top rate being 45%. The issues are that for the wealthy its largely optional - there are so many ways to shelter money or reclassify it as not income. In any event income tax is only around a third of government tax receipts. Council tax and VAT hit the poorest particularly hard, with the poorest 10% of households paying 7% of their gross income in council tax, compared to just 1.5% for the richest 10%, and 12.5% of gross income paid in VAT (5% for rich). How can it be fair that someone in a £50m house in Mayfair pays lower council tax than someone in a £250,000 house in Bournemouth? Why should the wealthier get a bigger tax break on pension contributions than the poorer? shouldnt there be at least a flat rate if not actually reversed? You should read the short article by Warren Buffet (linked below). Somehow we need to find a way to tax individual windfall unearned gains, tackle corporate tax avoidance and tax wealth rather than focussing solely on income. That cant be done only on a national basis. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11962411/The-highest-and-lowest-council-tax-bills.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html?_r=0

Bit off topic but when I moved into the village where I live 10 years ago the main street had a bookies, four banks, one deli, a Majestic wine shop, three newsagents, one supermarket, a couple of estate agents, two clothes shops four restaurants and one coffee shop. Now all the banks, clothes shops, Majestic, bookies, two out of three newsagents and two out of four restaurants are gone - replaced by three daytime only coffee shops, three lawyers, four hairdressers / barbers, two bathroom / kitchen shops a florist and a wedding dress shop. Shopping and living habits have changed so much even in one decade.

Yeah. I know, everybody knows, apart from you apparently to whom the bleeding obvious is a startling revelation. If you were a little brighter you realise that stat actually confirms my point - 5% earn so much that they pay more tax than the other 95% of the population combined, despite the top rate of 45% not being very progressive.

0.3% in Q1, looking like a contraction in Q2. We're acing it I tells thee

Do you think its good for the economy or for society that the top earners get an increasing share of national wealth? Where does that lead?

The top are doing better. No surprise there. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/householddisposableincomeandinequality/yearending2018

Not learnt exactly - but getting confidence earlier in life would have made a huge difference

UK GDP per capita growth 2016-2018 is third lowest out of 40 of our closest neighbours. But we beat Azerbaijan. Woot. Oh and whilst the FTSE 100 is up 15.7% since the referendum in the same period Germany's DAX is up 29.2% and the US DJ 50.2%. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?contextual=region&end=2018&locations=GB&start=2016

She was literally swivel eyed during interviews in election night. Like a parody of Brexiteers. Can’t see her lasting five years without a major fallout

‘Frank Lampard’s Chelsea Until Terminated by Mutual Consent’ Derby will be ‘The Club Formerly Known as......’

Reading week is timed to coincide with exams, not half term.

Couldn’t ask for a better demonstration of how utterly out of touch you are with reality. It’s the 10th most popular news site worldwide - not far behind Fox and ahead of ABC .

He says British sales might go up if there is a resolution to Brexit - ie an end to uncertainty, not JLR sales overall will go up. And even then he admits its an optimistic one side, not objective view. So, thinking positively, you could say that any resolution to the Brexit impasse could help us emerge into a more favourable mindset, possibly even with pricing advantages for anyone building their cars in Britain,” he said. “It’s a one-sided view,” said Glover, “but my job is to sell Jaguars and Land Rovers in the UK"